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ch 2 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Active Sports Tourism | involves traveling away from one's home environment to actively participate in a sport or physical activity, rather than just watching an event or visiting a sports attraction |
| Allocentric Travelers | a confident, extroverted, and adventurous tourist who seeks new and novel experiences, often traveling to remote or off-the-beaten-path destinations |
| Business Tourism | travel undertaken for work-related purposes, such as attending meetings, conferences, trade shows, or training, to facilitate professional objectives like client meetings, contract negotiation, or team building |
| Corporate Hospitality Event | where a company hosts clients, potential clients, employees, and others in a non-work environment, providing high-end services, food, and beverages to foster relationships, generate goodwill, and promote business goals like client retention and employee m |
| Demographics | statistical data about population groups, such as age, income, or ethnicity, or it can refer to a specific group of people defined by those characteristics |
| Destination | a place to which one is journeying or to which something is sent. |
| Economic Leakage | the withdrawal of money from an economy, such as taxes, savings, or imports, which results in a reduction of income and economic activity within that economy |
| Geotagging | the process of embedding geographic location data, such as GPS coordinates, into digital files like photos, videos, or other content |
| Insta Tourism | a form of tourism driven by exposure on social media, particularly Instagram, where users are motivated to visit destinations based on photos and videos shared by others, especially social media influencers |
| Market Segmentations | the strategic process of dividing a broad target market into smaller, more defined subgroups or segments of consumers who share common characteristics, needs, or behaviors |
| Mass Tourism | organized, large-scale movements of tourists to popular destinations, characterized by standardized, mass-produced packages and experiences for mass consumption |
| MICE | Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions |
| Mid-Centric Travelers | a classification within Plog's Model of Tourist Behavior who seek a balance between the adventurous and familiar, preferring destinations that blend both known and new experiences, such as cultural or historical sites |
| Nostalgic Sports Tourism | traveling to sports-related sites or events to evoke a sentimental connection to a past era of sports |
| Passive Sports Tourism | a form of tourism where travelers go to a destination to watch or spectate at a sporting event or venue, rather than to participate in the sport themselves |
| Plog’s Model | a theory that links a tourist's personality to their destination choice and predicts a destination's evolution from a niche to a mass-market appeal, based on the psychographic profiles of the travelers it attracts |
| Psychocentric Travelers | a non-adventurous tourist who prefers familiar and comfortable destinations, often returning to the same well-known places and activities for vacations to seek security and predictability |
| Psychographics | the classification of groups of people based on psychological variables, such as attitudes, values, interests, and lifestyles, rather than demographic factors like age or gender |
| Target Market | a specific group of potential customers who are most likely to buy a company's products or services because they share common characteristics |
| Typology | the study, classification, or systematic arrangement of things into types or categories based on common characteristics |
| Virtual Tourism | the act of experiencing tourist destinations and attractions without physically traveling to them, using technologies like virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), interactive 360° videos, and other digital tools to create immersive and informative e |
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